On 12/5/13 1:14 PM, Mark D. McKean wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2013, at 3:39 pm, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... that's strange, all right.  Go ahead and try removing the games user 
>> and group, and try "fink reinstall passwd-games again".  Having 'games' 
>> entwined with 'staff' might be causing your issues.
>
> Okay, that worked, with one additional step. After creating the new user and 
> group, the ownership of /sw/bin/tornado was still set to group 20, and it 
> still wouldn't run. I chown'ed it to match the new GID for the games group, 
> and now it runs. I have done the same for the .cfg file for alienblaster as 
> well, and will probably need to do that if I run across any other files owned 
> by games/games that were installed before I created the new group. Thanks for 
> the assistance!
>
> Mark D. McKean
> qpa...@quantumpanda.com
>

Glad to help.

And thanks for following up.  If somebody else has the same issue we can 
point them this thread.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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